The incoming Republican president in 2012 should take a page from the Clinton playbook and immediately demand the resignation letters of every single 0bama appointee in the executive department ..... and then accept them.
Winning the election and gaining control of Congress is only one part of the battle. The entire executive department bureaucracy must be completely hosed out and ideologically scrubbed down from the very top to the very bottom. If this is not done , all reforms will either be obstructed, coopted, paralyzed, or neutered by lingering socialist bureaucrats
Very good point. One of the problems that Bush had was that he was not ruthless enough in getting rid of the Clinton leftovers, and they did nothing but obstruct him all they could.
Hosing out the commie moles will probably require a broader approach. Those moles with civil service jobs have protections. A better approach would be to entrench a policy of seniority, followed by massive staff cuts(or department elimination with consolidation) that target the new Obama civil servant hires through seniority. The departments desperately needing targeting are Labor, Commerce, Education, Justice, EPA, Energy,Interior. I’m sure that a dedicated conservative president could figure out a way to do much of this through executive order (furloughs?) or with just a little congressional help. If a GOP president doesn’t do this right away early in their administration, the moles will leak to the Leftist media and sabotage all further efforts at reform.